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Graded A (2023/ 2024 Update)
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What is another name for the Rorschach Answer: Inkblot test
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MMPI; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is famous why? Answer: Most researched test in history
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Psychological measurement; measures the inner workings of the mind and behavior Answer: Psychometrics
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What type of test is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Answer: Personality test
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You say a word to your client and he answers back with the first thing that comes to mind. What theorist developed the method you're using Answer: Carl Jung
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A career test that tests one's ABILITY Answer: An aptitude test
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When did group counseling begin to be done more regularly Answer: After the 1960s
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Which early theorist engaged in group therapy Answer: Alfred Adler
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Group therapy session that will be open only to patients suffering from depression, and will not allow new patients to join once the sessions have started. What type of group therapy are you offering? Answer:
Answer: why Have an outsider observer assess the group?
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When counseling young children in a group setting, it is helpful to enlist the involvement of whom? Answer: Parents
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gate keeper Answer: person who gives permission
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Someone who always agrees with anything the other group members say is Answer: nonassertive
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There are various stages in group therapy Answer: Forming, Storming, Norming, performing, and adjourning
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In group therapy, what is a blocker
Answer: Group member who blocks new ideas
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Clients who are in the midst of a personal crisis are often not good candidates for group therapy. They would need... Answer: Medication and individual psychotherapy
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Group process Answer: analysis of the group's interactions
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Group Content Answer: the material that is being discussed within the group
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Most therapists consider the best size for group therapy to be between Answer: 6 and 8 members; 8 is perfect.
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Branch of Psychology deals primarily with groups and social factors
An area of study in social cognition Answer: Attribution
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A cultural norm Answer: how people are supposed to act according to the culture
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What did the Milgram experiment show? Answer: People will usually obey authority
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What theorist developed the Social Distance Scale? Answer: Emory Bogardus
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What is the foot-in-the-door technique? Answer: Small request is made and after gaining compliance, larger request is made
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Self fulfilling prophecy- what becomes true; theorist; what does it mean? Answer: the false becomes true. Robert Merton. Stating something false will eventually come to pass
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Theory that helps explain prejudice; theory, theorist, what does it mean? Answer: Social Identity Theory - Henry Tajfel. When associated with a group, people will begin to think they are better than another group
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Altruism may be explained by what theory? Answer: Social Exchange Theory
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Jack and Samantha are alike in every way an it isn't long before they marry. What might explain their relationship? Answer: Consensual validity; they validate each other
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Making up excuses to make you feel better about yourself. Justifying your bad behavior in order to stay consistent - Leon Festinger Answer: Cognitive Dissonance
Answer: Schizophrenia; bipolar disorder
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Type of theory: Mirroring back client's verbalizations, and not passing judgment. Facilitating in assisting his client in reaching resolution of the presenting problems. Answer: Rogerian, client-centered therapy
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Binge eating coupled with inappropriate methods of controlling one's weight may be a symptom of Answer: Bulimia
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Concerns of his health; reports chronic intestinal difficulties, but has not sought medical treatment for his concerns. For the last five years he rarely feels at ease while at his job. Feels uneasy when outside the home. What is the diagnosis? Answer: Agoraphobia
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loss of appetite; nervousness, and recurrent nightmares of a past hospital experience from years prior, where she says she almost died. What is the diagnosis? Answer: PTSD
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Actively defiant of instructions, argues regularly, spiteful, and resentful. School performance is marginal. What is the diagnosis? Answer: Oppositional defiant disorder
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40 - year old client not feeling comfortable socially after gaining weight. Unwilling to try new activities and avoiding activities he once found enjoyable. What is the diagnosis? Answer: Avoidant Personality Disorder
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Client believes his favorite actress is in love with him. He is appropriate in every other way and substance use is not the factor. What is the diagnosis? Answer: Delusional Disorder
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Mild form of bipolar disorder. Cause is unknown Answer: Cyclothymia
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Client needs help with substance use, uses recreationally on the weekends. Two DUIs within 3 years. What is the diagnosis?
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20 year-old male college student. Last 6-7 months grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior and speech, hallucinations, poor responses. What is the diagnosis? Answer: Schizophrenia...Paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual
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When a client's physical symptoms have a psychological cause it is referred to as Answer: Conversion Disorder
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Any means by which by which a counselor assesses a client. ie: mental health exam, IQ test Answer: Appraisal
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Type of test - NCE (objective or subjective?) Answer: Objective
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Type of Test created by David Wechsler Answer: IQ
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When administering tests to a client, the counselor should always Answer: Inform the client of limitations of testing
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How accurate the test is Answer: Validity (In testing)
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The only test you are using with your client has a reliability of .60, you should... Answer: disregard the results of the test as the reliability is too low
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How consistent the results are Reliability (in testing) Answer: How consistent the results are
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Inherited intellectual abilities; father of behavioral genetics; personality traits are passed down Answer: Francis Galton (Galton is like the Waltons- Passes down traits)
Inductive Reasoning
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Using a specific measurement, such as smiles to measure happiness is an example of Answer: operational definition
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Every element of the population has an equal chance of being sampled. What type of sampling is this? Answer: Random Sampling
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A study measuring the IQ levels of a group of men, of differing ages, performed on a single day is most likely an example of Answer: Cross-Sectional study
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type of measurement which causes participants to behave differently because they are being watched Answer: Observer effect; Hawthorne effect
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Research effect/study in which medication is not real in one group
Answer: Placebo effect
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A 17-year old client has been referred to you for intellectual testing. What test are you likely to perform? Answer: WAIS-IV
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8 year old son - teachers feel he is impaired. What test to you give him? Answer: WISC-R - tests impairment and gifted students
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What does Frequency Distribution show? Answer: Shows the number of times a particular value occurs
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Score of 100 on the WAIS-IV is below average, average, or above average? Answer: Average
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Shows the number of times a particular value occurs Answer: Frequency Distribution
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Susie is playing with blocks and is trying to build a tower; she tries but cannot build a tower. Susie's mother helps her build a four block tower. Later, Susie builds a four-block tower without her mother's help. According to Vygotsky, the inability to build the tower on her own is known as Answer: Scaffolding
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According to Erikson, When an individual fails to develop a strong sense of identity, the individual will have troubles with the development of Answer: Intimacy
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Which of the following is the correct sequence of stages in Freud's theory of personality development? Answer: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
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Jacob's father tells Jacob to clean his room. When Jacob asks why, his father responds "Because I said So". The father's response is most representative of which parenting style
Answer: Authoritarian (I love authoritative because the parent tells the kid why)
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Harry Harlow used baby monkeys and several different kinds of "surrogate mothers" to investigate which factors are important in early development and attachment. According to his findings, baby monkeys: What type of mother did the monkeys prefer? Answer: Preferred a soft terrycloth "mother" to a wire-mesh "mother" that held a bottle
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The myth about suicide in the U.S. Answer: When you ask a person about suicide may push them over the edge
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Cody does what his parents tells him so he does not lose tv privileges. What level in Kohlberg's theory of moral development? Answer: Preconventional
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Josie likes to play peek-a-boo with her little brother, Jack. According to Piaget, Jack finds this game fun because he has acquired____________ - which is one of the primary tasks of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development Answer: Object Permanence
